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Patented Mar. 3,1868.

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To ALL wHoMIr MAY icononnn-s Be it known that I, Tuon'ss W. Print, of the city of London, England, hove'in'vented a ue'w end improved Siphon-Tap, or apparatus for; drswing liquids from osslrs sud other vessels; and I do hereby-declare the following to be a full and exact description thereof, reference. being had to the necou penying drawings, formin a part of this specification, in whichl Figure 1 illustrates the manner of construoting'the end of the buoyant .tube of my apparatus Figure 2, my siphon-tap as inserted in a cask of "liquid.

Figure 3,1 section through the tap centrally, illustrating one form of constructing the fixed ststionary- :portion thereof.

The n'sture'of my'mvention consists of a tsp or oook'fordrawing liqurd from'v'essels, so-e'onstrncted as that the liquid shall flow out from the vessel from its surface until entirely dischurged, l.nd be dreined to the .Yery bottom of the vessel, whateverits form.

My apparatus consists of a. tap having its .dischsrging-aperture'so eitneted es thet when the Fnner mist the tsp is properly inserted in the vessel, said aperture shell be in a plane belowthe lowermost phint in the.

"vess'ehand whoseinner end is provided .with a flexible tube, buoyed at its free openend soss to em on the -Inri's ce of'the liquid. I

In the accompanying drawings, fig. 3 illustrates one form of the fixed, portion ofmy improved up. The liquid flowing freelyinth the tap froni its' inner end or arm, inserted into' the side or end of' the vessel tube tapped, is not shut orclosed" 05' until it reaches the very end of-. the 'dischnrging-spout. This spoutisso extended as that when the inner end or arm of' the tap isinsorted into the vessel, neer the'hottom'thereof, the 7 lower end of this discharging-spout shall he entirely belowthe snid bottom, as illustritted in fig. 2. 10 the inner endor arm of the top so constructed,. I secure 'a flexible tube, Tue shown in fig. 2, end-[impart buoyancy to the-free open end of this tube by attaching thereto a. flontoi wood, cork, or other materiel,'or by foriningn confined airsspsee therein,-as shown 'in fig. 1. Ordinarily I contemplate forming the inlet-opening of the tubedpon one side thereof, suilicie'ntly reinoved from the buoyed end as to insure its being alwuysuuder'th'c' surfnce of the liquid, and-I protect the opening by a suitable strainer, when it is necessary.

- With ordinary siphons for-discharging liquids, the liqi1id is drawn from the bottoln. of the vessel, iu jitsthickest and most sedimehteryportion, unless great care be taken to hold the inner leg thereof near the sur me, and to keep it there as, the liquid flows out. In ordinary taps or cocks" the liquid is necessarily drawn I from the bottom, carrying in its outflow ell-sediment which may have collected there, and where, nsis usual in all oasks, the centre is lower than the endswhen; the cask is supported longitudinally, the entire amount of liquid must be drawn with such taps without-"removing ,the top wholly nndtilting up the cash My invention prorides asclf-acting siphon-tap, by niea'ns of which the clearest portion of the liquid is alweys drawn first, until the entire contents of the vessel are discharged, and which will produce an entire discharge thereof through the tap without agitation-of the vessel, and without the necessity of tilting the some. i

, What Iolaim as new in this my invention, and desire to secure by Letters'Petent, is' v A tap or cock so constructed as that its discharging-aperture may beopen ed sndclosed below the level'o'i' the bottom of the cask or vessel into which it is inserted, and whose inner end-consists of or terminates in n loath flexible tube, all substsntiolly-i u; the manner and for tho purpose herein set forth I THOS. w."PLUM- Witnesses:

Msrrnnw Aueusrus Sons, 2 Geonen Penman, 

